Alexander H. Stephens Quotes
Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.
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O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
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What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
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I've been evolving in my stunt career Stunts have always had their place, and I have to measure them now. I've done things where, if I make a mistake, I could die. You really need to look at each thing. That usually is a mechanical failure. So, I have gone from doing everything, to listening and saying, "Maybe I shouldn't do this."
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I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.
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If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
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Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.
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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
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He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.
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Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.
